This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Hey hey look it
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song...
Our bodies breathe of the city street lights
Lets set our watches, because tonight's the night
Everyone, get out your cameras
Tonight's a night to remember
My heart's in sync with, these constant memories
When I look back, I wish I had more of these
Neverland is just around the corner
I'm done with this "getting older"
Hey hey look it
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song
Here we are in my car
Driving under the same lucky stars
That we wished on when we were kids
Let me hear you say "Hey kid, I miss this"
Hey kid, I miss this
Cause I miss this
Hey hey look it
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song (play our favorite song)
Hey hey look it
Hey hey hey hey hey hey look it
Hey hey hey hey hey hey look it
Hey hey
(Play our favorite song)
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song...
Our bodies breathe of the city street lights
Lets set our watches, because tonight's the night
Everyone, get out your cameras
Tonight's a night to remember
My heart's in sync with, these constant memories
When I look back, I wish I had more of these
Neverland is just around the corner
I'm done with this "getting older"
Hey hey look it
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song
Here we are in my car
Driving under the same lucky stars
That we wished on when we were kids
Let me hear you say "Hey kid, I miss this"
Hey kid, I miss this
Cause I miss this
Hey hey look it
You came around again
Didn't think we'd see you, with how things ended back then
Hey hey old friend
I think it's been too long
Grab the guitar, let's sit around, and play our favorite song (play our favorite song)
Hey hey look it
Hey hey hey hey hey hey look it
Hey hey hey hey hey hey look it
Hey hey
(Play our favorite song)
Lyrics submitted by fedorov1fan
Hey Hey Lyrics as written by Joell Ortiz Bryan G. Fryzel
Lyrics © Kanjian Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Youre driving which shows you are at least over 16 and you are looking at stars and saying how you used to wish upon them and I think the "hey kid i miss this" refers to their younger self.
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